All of the following statements about the lengthy period of human immaturity are correct EXCEPT:
A) it allows time for an enormous amount of learning to occur.
B) it demands that human cultures provide stable environments for their young.
C) it allows mature individuals in a society to function as teachers and no longer be in a role as learners.
D) it requires human cultures to protect their young for long periods of time.
E) it leaves few specific human behaviors directly under genetic control.
Question 2
Which of the following statements best illustrates the significance of culture for most anthropologists?
A) Anthropologists agree on the basic characteristics of culture, but disagree on the relative importance of those characteristics and on how they study them.
B) Anthropologists agree on the basic characteristics of culture and on the importance of each of those characteristics, but they do not all study observable behavior.
C) Anthropologists see culture distinctly and do not agree on the basic characteristics of culture.
D) Anthropologists study observable behavior, but only a few of them study cultural attributes.
E) Anthropologists study observable behavior, but the meanings and understandings that people attach to their behavior is not important to anthropologists.
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